Visual basic / coding progs

[cool fraser]

I just started coding at school. I dont NEED a program so i dont want to spend money on visual basic... I was wondering, are there any free and legal programs that will allow me to code as powerfully as visual basic or similar language to visual basic (preferably both) Thanks for any help!

[nehkid]

As powerful as Visual Basic...

Visual Basic is not programming. I used Visual Basic in high school and that did not get me ready for my first programming course. Try looking into Java or C++, I know there are other popular languages out there but I haven't really been exposed to anything except those two. I would suggest a bit of caution though, I would've had a really hard time learning those languages if I wasn't forced to do labs every week. It's not as "friendly" as VB is.

[cool fraser]

Thanks for the reply. but i need a free program, is C+++?

[nehkid]

Those were languages to program in. There are free compilers to turn your code into something that can run.

[thedarklegend]

Of course Visual Basic is programming....What planet you on? Because it has a pretty GUI and is a simple high-level programming language it's not a programming language? lol?

I'm really not sure if there are any free programs for VB. I have seen a few programs that imitate it but i'm not sure if the source will work in VB. Dev C++ (Bloodshed) was a program i always used for C++.

You can have a look at it here (http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/devcpp.html)

[DABhand]

Yeah you will always find free compilers for any language, but you are better off using the MS VB suite, not only will it compile etc, but the GUI and extras help your VB programming alot, not to mention some tutorials on how to do certain things which could broaden your knowledge of VB.

[arckane]

Break out Python. It's a free programming language, supported across all platforms, compilers are free, multiple different application front ends to help you write and compile your code.

It has Python2EXE so you can compile direct to WIN32 binary :)

Database hooks and the alike, nice API links, blah blah blah.

http://www.python.org/
http://www.python.org/doc/

and here is a link to see if it's for you

http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html

IHTH

[cool fraser]

Thanks for all your replies fellas, sorry if any of u arent blokes! now... PYTHON thats the name i was after thanks arckane for reminding me... A friend of mine who is a game creator told me that python was a good language to learn in... i just forgot the name! THANKS THANKS THANKS!!!

[thedarklegend]

Most of the most popular games, as in game professionally programmed, are made in C. I've never touched Python before so i can't can't comment on it.